Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 2 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 3 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 4 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 5 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 6 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 7 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 8 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 9 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 10 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 11 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 12 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 13 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 14 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 15 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 16 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 17 | Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year . |
| 18 | THOUSANDS of commuters yesterday rushed to beat New Year train fare rises . |
| 19 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd began to operate last year when 160 miners each invested £10,000 to reopen the pit . |
| 20 | When the number of new writerships , cadetships and surgeoncies which would be required became known each year , the total was divided as evenly as possible into thirty shares . |
| 21 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 22 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 23 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 24 | In his preface to the catalogue , Apollinaire wrote : ‘ The new painters who made manifest this year , at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants of Paris , their artistic ideals , accept the name of Cubists which has been given to them . |
| 25 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 26 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 27 | A further £1.1m from the sale , together with the cash generated from group operations , combined to turn last year 's debt of £4.8m into cash of £1.2m this year . |
| 28 | She would be employed specifically to enter journal subscription data into our computer system — the job which Paul Ainsworth failed to complete last year due to absences . |
| 29 | Mind you , I did think last year the grant was down too low , at eight hundred thousand , but that was the amount they put in , it was two point eight , I think , to start with , and two million pounds offered in the end . |
| 30 | One question policyholders should ask is — if the company did underperform last year , has this limited its options ? |